Sentence examples for productive grief from inspiring English sources
This is the sort of productive grief I am describing, distinct from despair.
In the aftermath of brutal violence in Baton Rouge, Dhaka, Baghdad, Istanbul, Orlando, and elsewhere, as well as recent changes in my private life, a productive grief has begun to awaken in me, shaking fiercely the entitlement from the sleeping branches, throwing the illusions to the curbside adjacent to the surprised trees.
Get busy being productive, and let your grief turn into productivity.
And, for many, to see how they were able to transform their grief into productive ends".
Work out, or use the time of grief for something productive.
Others will turn their grief and rage into productive social and political action to help reduce the risk of similar threats to children.
Logically you have no control or influence over their friend's failure but still they will grief instead of supporting their friend in a productive way.
For a while now, to the grief of his fans, he has not been very productive.
That former grief is awful, and may seem unendurable, but at least it is more productive, for it is grief that has lost but not renounced life, grief that still feels to the root the living reality of love because it feels so utterly that absence.
It has been suggested that the wounded are the hidden casualties of the Iraq war, stranded somewhere between our grief for the dead and a wartime patriotism best stirred by the belief that our troops are both productive and healthy.
